Sunday, October 4, 2015

MapWork3

As day 3 dawned in some steady rain, our plan was to attempt to run the state of Tennessee and make it into Arkansas by nightfall. After about four hours, the rain let up and it was clear sailing. Sitting on the porch a few days before setting out, with a couple of maps and a AAA TripTik in hand, our plan was to make it to the Lone Star State sometime Sunday, but once we were rolling, we both had late Saturday afternoon firmly in mind. You see, we had given my Garmin to J&Y, for their trip seemed a bit more convoluted. Besides, I swear to the Almighty, give Elenka 10 minutes with any foreign road map, and she has most twists and turns committed to memory. She's a map genius! She had written the routes in each state down in a notebook and that was pretty much all we needed. Smart phones with GPS's be damned! Really, our trip wasn't complicated after we got into Pennsylvania. It was pretty much a straight shot through most of the states. This day took us across the Volunteer State via Routes 81 and 40. Some beautiful mountains off in the distance to the left and right kept us company throughout the day. Our path took us near Knoxville, Nashville, and Memphis (hello Elvis!). It's a very pretty state, and we did find that 1.83 a gallon for Unleaded Regular somewhere in our day. In late afternoon, across the border into Arkansas we went. Little Rock looked like a nice landing spot. Justin found us a good room rate near the highway, and we settled there for the night.Subs for dinner.Day three was history.Tomorrow brings the final push.

18 comments:

Elenka and I have something in common, reading maps. I much prefer a map to all those fancy GPS systems. Once I've got the map visualized, I can pretty much take it from there. Whenever I think of cities I've learned to love like London and Paris, my mind immediately pictures the map.

That sky is lovely. It must have given interest to this part of the drive.

You are lucky to have a map genius with you. My car has built-in GPS, but it has taken me through some pretty weird places, so these days I plot the driving plan on my iPhone's Google Maps and just follow the car's GPS like a map.

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